Posted in Blogging, Insects, Photography, arizona, tagged entomology, mother's day, Nature on May 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Rose Aphids - Macrosiphum rosae
Tucson, Arizona
It’s fair to say that without the encouragement of my mother, who allowed all manner of newts, snakes, caterpillars, tadpoles and ants into the house, I would not have gone on to become a biologist.
Thanks Mom, and happy mother’s day!
photo details: Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens on a Canon [...]
Posted in Blogging, Navel-Gazing on May 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Busy, busy, busy. In the meantime, there’s always the “Blog” of Unnecessary Quotation Marks.
Posted in Blogging, Navel-Gazing on April 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The New York Times has a piece on Ansel Adams.
Spot the fake smile!
Get your fix of Cicada Mania.
And finally…Polar Bear Tacos?
Posted in Blogging, Insects, Science on April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Not much posting this week. I’ve been busy getting genetic data from a new batch of specimens for the Beetle Tree of Life project, a process that’s always slower than I expect.
Fortunately it turns out that the internet has sites other than mine, and some of those even have interesting things to read and pretty [...]
Posted in Blogging, fun, tagged arthropoda on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
This may come as a shock to my regular readers, but I agree with Afarensis that Arthropoda is clearly the best animal phylum.
Posted in Blogging, tagged excellent, linkage on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
but apparently the Myrmecos Blog is “excellent”. Thanks Adrian!
On the off chance you actually came here looking for excellence, let me send you off in some more fruitful directions:
Drawing the MotMot
Stu Jenks
NCSU Insect Blog
Posted in Blogging, Science, Taxonomy on February 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Linnaeus’ Legacy #4 is up at The Other 95%.
Posted in Blogging, Insects, Photography, tagged bloopers, fail, macro, macrophotography, mediocrity, Nature on February 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I have thousands of absolutely awful photographs on my hard drive. I normally delete the screw-ups on camera as soon as they happen, but enough seep through that even after the initial cut they outnumber the good photos by at least 3 to 1. Here are a few of my favorite worst shots.
Thinking that [...]
Posted in Blogging, Insects, Science on February 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Circus of the Spineless #29 is now posted at Andrea’s Buzzing About. The circus rounds up invertebrate blog posts from the previous month, a great read!
#30 will be at A D.C. Birding Blog at the end of February.
Posted in Blogging, Navel-Gazing, Paraguay, Science, tagged Argentina, spiders on January 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My lovely wife Jo-anne has been in South America the last couple weeks doing field research on Argentine ants while I tend the home fires here in Tucson. I hope she finds it in her to forgive me for the post I am about to write.
Earlier today I got an email explaining why I’m [...]
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